Weekend recommendation!🍉 A Historian in Gaza combines meticulous historical documentation with a lyrical, empathetic portrayal of the Gazan people’s daily struggle for survival and dignity amidst devastation. Now in bookstores and online.

#Wednesday reading! A Historian in Gaza is now in bookstores and online.

Rainy day essentials! Have you got your Agents of Ishq anthology yet? Love, Sex and India (ed. by Paromita Vohra) is now in bookstores and online.

"Rather than treating the Great Nicobar debate as purely social or environmental or economic or even strategic, the essays consider the project as an intersection of environment, society, law and ethics." Island on Edge is now in bookstores and online. www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/bo...

' It exists not merely as a poetry book, but as a living reference on the aesthetics of poetry.' We loved this review of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's new poetry collection. Of Least Concern is now in bookstores and online. scroll.in/article/1089...

Mirza Waheed's new novel is now in bookstores across India, and online. Get your copy soon!

🌹 Happy pub day to Love, Sex and India: The Agents of Ishq anthology, celebrating the different ways in which India loves, desires, and understands intimacy. Real desi stories reframing sex not as taboo, but as a democratic expression of selfhood. Now in bookstores and online. #republicoflove

It’s #RepublicDay, and we are delighted to announce the publication of T.M. Krishna’s We, the People of India, an eloquent meditation on constitutionalism, freedom and the importance of effective representation in a vibrant democracy. Now available at all major bookstores and online.

Only 2 days to go! 🎉 Maryam & Son by Mirza Waheed is coming to your favourite bookstores and online this Monday.

It's pub day for A Historian in Gaza, an intimate and harrowing eyewitness account of Gaza, blending rigorous reportage with a profound narrative of human resilience. Now in bookstores and online.

It’s pub day! Saranya Subramanian’s brilliant debut vividly imagines the slow climb out of depression to discover presence and identity in daily life. ‘Absent People, Absent Places’ is now available at all major bookstores and online.

It's pub day for the first Queer Directions (QD) book of the year! TransForming Rights is a comprehensive examination of how Indian law shapes transgender lives, and the contradiction between legal recognition and lived experiences. Now in bookstores and online.

“As a journalist who writes a lot on clothes, I constantly had this restlessness that this too was about interiority,” Vasudev explains. “Appearance is persistent and persuasive all the time.” Read Shefalee Vasudev's interview with VOGUE India www.vogue.in/content/is-c...

'At times, the book reads like an ecological thriller. History, policy, and lived experiences are layered in a way that steadily builds unease,...as the risks are real, immediate, and irreversible.' Island on Edge is in bookstores and online. www.deccanherald.com/features/boo...

On #Wednesday as we have our third big cup of coffee😅, we are reading this funny and deeply researched essay on Coffee in Shefalee Vasudev's Stories We Wear. Now in bookstores and online.

Read this extract in the Mint from Shefalee Vasudev's Stories We Wear. Get your copy from bookstores and online. www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/...

‘Citizen Under Siege is a book that will age well, bearing witness as it does to a time when citizens rights and the Constitution suffered grave damage.’ Read Frontline’s review of G.N. Devy’s Citizen Under Siege here: frontline.thehindu.com/books/booksr...

OPEN magazine, India lists Mirza Waheed's Maryam & Son as one of the most anticipated books of the year! Pre-order your copy on amzn.in/d/1Li86JW. openthemagazine.com/books/2026-f...

Special book alert! Coming to stores soon, this remarkable examination of citizenship, democracy, and the symbols that represent us as a nation. Pre-order T.M. Krishna’s We, the People of India now: amzn.in/d/aAgAnF5

A powerful in-depth account of France’s aggressive imperial role in South Asia over 150 years. Glorious Failure by Robert Ivermee is now available at all major bookstores and online. Get your copy today!

We have the perfect news for all readers! Mirza Waheed's highly anticipated, stunning new novel, Maryam & Son is now on preorder! Releasing on 26 January 2026 Preorder your copy on amzn.in/d/1Li86JW

'Chumki isn’t fair, and she doesn’t want to be. She’s never worn a sari, and says she never will. She can’t cook and doesn’t want to learn.' Know more about Chumki in this extract from Stories We Wear. thenodmag.com/content/stor...

Read this excerpt from Pankaj Sekhsaria edited Island on Edge, delving into how tribal lands are getting erased in the #GreatNicobarProject. theprint.in/pageturner/e...

A fantastical crossover! @gautambhatia88.bsky.social will be in conversation with Bora Chung exploring the many worlds of speculative fiction across East and South Asia. You do not want to miss this discussion. Happening online on Jan 10 (Sat). Scan the QR code to register.

We are starting the new year on a high note! Delighted to see Srikar Raghavan’s Rama Bhima Soma and @psemolina3.bsky.social’s Dapaan on Frontline’s best non-fiction books of 2025. Available at all major bookstores and online!

From lived experiences, reportages, family histories and national discourse, here are all the 2025 books that truly represented that the personal is indeed political.

We Are Our Future by business legend Ashok S. Ganguly is now in bookstores and online.

‘The book unfolds as a sustained moral inquiry into the steady erosion of citizenship in contemporary India. Devy writes as both moralist and realist-shaped not only by the legacy of Independence but by the anxieties of a fragile, evolving democracy.’ —Dumani Mail’s review of Citizen Under Siege:

"Pankajam’s enthusiasm for her children’s well-being was tempered by her sense of herself as a patriot who must heed the call to arms of a nation-in-the-making." scroll.in/article/1088... An excerpt by Kalpana Karunakaran @westlandbooks.bsky.social #bookexcerpt

Who is the Indian anti-heroine and where do we find her? Shefalee Vasudev goes on this quest in her essay Bareilly ki Barfi in Stories We Wear. Now available in bookstores and online!

As you go through airports, hurrying to catch your flight for the year-end holidays, take a moment and notice the people who keep the lines moving: the CISF officers. Shefalee Vasudev's 'Airport Look' gives us a sneak peek into their lives. Stories We Wear is now in stores.

"What distinguishes this book is its ability to move fluidly between the personal and the political. " Read this review of Shefalee Vasudev's Stories We Wear. Stories We Wear is now in bookstores and online. share.google/PHkOZSrPvujT...

As the year comes to a close, we are reading Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's poems to find for ourselves a language of love, loss, hope and introspection. Of Least Concern is now in bookstores and online.

Unmechanical in The Hollywood Reporter ! Get your copy of this collector's edition from your favourite bookstore or online. www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/col... #Ghatakat100

As #Homebound makes it to the #Oscars2026 shortlist for best international film, we are reading Shefalee Vasudev's essay on the many Indias, from migrants to politicians, that come together on Kartavya Path. Stories We Wear is now in bookstores and online.

Airport looks, politicians dressing in ideologies, learning how Indians fashion their selfhood and much more were discussed at the #Delhi launch of Shefalee Vasudev's Stories We Wear with Shrayana Bhattacharya and Vivek Mansukhani.

A meditation on myth and mirror, fabric and facade, skin and screen, Shefalee Vasudev's Stories We Wear examines the ways in which we dress our identities, conceal (or reveal) our histories and curate our contradictions. A book that perfectly represents the stories India wears. Now in bookstores.

‘Far more exciting than a book about legal ethics has any right to be.’ We are thrilled to see @gautambhatia88.bsky.social’s The Sentence on KJ Charles’s list for Best Books of 2025! kjcharleswriter.com/2025/12/08/b...

Join us as we bookstore hop with Kalpana Karunakaran in #bangalore tomorrow!

‘In design and execution, Be­tween Worlds is one of the more open-minded books you are likely to come across this year.’ Read @locusmag.bsky.social’s review of Between Worlds, the inaugural IF anthology of new Indian SFF, edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social. locusmag.com/review/betwe...

We are the Stories We Wear! Join us for an evening of conversations as we officially launch Shefalee Vasudev s Stories We Wear with Shrayana Bhattacharya and Vivek Mansukhani on 16 December. #Delhi #StoriesWeWear

Tejaswini Apte-Rahm's incredible biography of her grandfather whose story inspired her award-winning novel 'The Secret of More' is coming to bookstores this Wednesday! www.mid-day.com/mumbai-guide...

Open Call! We are now accepting submissions for the second volume of Between Worlds, the IF anthology of new Indian SFF, edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social. Writers of #SpeculativeFiction, please send us your entries! A detailed note and guidelines here: sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

If you are in #Mumbai, we have the perfect thing for your weekend! Don't just read the book, experience it in a whole new way with this heritage walk. Register for the Tatyasaheb walk on bit.ly/3KzIItP

Come celebrate with us the centenary of #RitwikGhatak this Saturday at India Habitat Centre! #Ghatakat100

Join us for the launch of Pankaj Sekhsaria edited Island on Edge on Tuesday, 9 December at India International Centre. #GreatNicobarProject #ClimatePolicy

Business biographies have always fascinated us! Biographers Nandini Vijayaraghavan & Tejaswini Apte-Rahm will share with us the stories of business mavericks Rakesh Jhunjhunwala & Tatyasaheb at Business Unusual. Register on bit.ly/WBU2025. Use the code BU50 for special discount! #wbu2025

We had a wonderful time at the Green Lit Fest this weekend with our author Pankaj Sekhsaria and Island on Edge. Here are some snippets!

For all the film buffs in #DelhiNCR, we have the perfect treat for you! Celebrating #Ghatakat100, we have three exciting events in Delhi and Gurgaon. Come join us!

Citizen Under Siege is a deeply anguished response by literary scholar and cultural activist G.N. Devy to the present state of affairs in India. Available at all bookstores and online. Get your copy today.